About this threat

RansSIRIA Ransomware file-encoding malware, often known as ransomware, will encrypt your data. Depending on what type of ransomware it is, you may not be able to access your files again. Another reason why it’s thought to be a highly damaging malware is that the threat is quite easy to obtain. If you have recently opened a weird email attachment, clicked on a dubious advert or downloaded an ‘update’ advertised on some untrustworthy website, that is how it infected your device. And once it’s opened, it will begin encoding your files, and when the process is finished, it’ll request that you pay a specific amount to get a decryption utility, which in theory should recover your data. The money you are asked to pay is likely to range from $100 to $1000, depending on the ransomware. Even if you’re demanded to pay a small amount, we do not suggest paying. Don’t trust crooks to keep their word and recover your files, since they might simply take your money. If you take the time to look into it, you will certainly find accounts of people not being able to decrypt files, even after paying. Backup is a better investment, since you would not endangering your data if the situation were to happen again. There are many options to choose from, and we are sure you’ll find one best suiting your needs. You may restore data from backup if you had it done prior to malware infecting your machine, after you remove RansSIRIA Ransomware. This is not the last time malware will infect your device, so you ought to be ready. To protect a system, one must always be on the lookout for possible malware, becoming familiar with their spread methods.

Ransomware spread methods

Generally, ransomware sticks to the basic ways to distribute, such as via questionable sources for downloads, malicious ads and infected email attachments. Only seldom does ransomware use methods that are more sophisticated.

The possible way you got the infection is through email attachment, which could have came from a legitimate seeming email. Basically, this method is just adding a file to an email and sending it to many people. If they wanted, crooks could make those emails very convincing, normally using sensitive topics like money and taxes, which is why we aren’t shocked that many people open those attachments. Usage of basic greetings (Dear Customer/Member), strong pressure to open the file attached, and many grammatical mistakes are what you need to be careful of when dealing with emails with attached files. Your name would be automatically put in into an email if the sender was from a company whose email you need to open. Amazon, PayPal and other known company names are often used because users know them, thus are more likely to open the emails. You could have also picked up the threat via malicious adverts or bogus downloads. Compromised web pages may be hosting infected ads so stop pressing on them. And try to stick to official download sources as much as possible, because otherwise you’re putting your system in jeopardy. You should never download anything from adverts, whether they’re pop-ups or banners or any other type. If an application needed to update itself, it would not alert you via browser, it would either update automatically, or send you a notification via the software itself.

What does it do?

Because ransomware is able to permanently lock you out of your data, it is classified to be one of the most harmful malicious software threats. File encryption does not take long, a file encoding malicious software has a list of target files and can locate all of them immediately. Weird file extensions will appear added to all affected files, and they’ll probably indicate the name of ransomware. Strong encryption algorithms will be used to make your data inaccessible, which makes decrypting files for free likely impossible. A note with the ransom will then appear on your screen, or will be found in folders containing encrypted files, and it should explain everything, or at least try to. It will tell you how much you’re expected to pay for a decryptor, but buying it’s not recommended. Crooks could just take your money without helping you decrypt data. And the money will likely go towards other malicious program projects, so you would be financing their future activity. And, more and more people will become interested in the already very successful business, which allegedly made $1 billion in 2016 alone. Consider investing the demanded money into trustworthy backup instead. And you wouldn’t be putting your files in danger if this kind of situation occurred again. If giving into the demands isn’t something you have opted to do, proceed to erase RansSIRIA Ransomware in case it is still operating. These kinds threats can be avoided, if you know how they are distributed, so try to familiarize with its spread ways, in detail.

RansSIRIA Ransomware elimination

If you want to completely get rid of the threat, you will need to acquire malicious threat removal software, if it isn’t already present on your device. You might involuntarily end up damaging your device if you attempt to manually remove RansSIRIA Ransomware yourself, so doing everything yourself is not recommended. A better option would be to implement valid malicious program removal software. If the data encrypting malware is still present on your device, the security utility will uninstall RansSIRIA Ransomware, as the purpose of those programs is to take care of such infections. Below this article, you’ll see instructions to assist you, if you’re not sure how to proceed. However unfortunate it may be, those programs cannot help you decrypt your files, they’ll just terminate the infection. But, you ought to also bear in mind that some ransomware is decryptable, and malware researchers could develop free decryptors.

1. Remove RansSIRIA Ransomware using Safe Mode with Networking.

Step 1.1. Reboot your computer in Safe Mode with Networking.

Windows 7/Vista/XP

When your computer starts rebooting, press multiple times F8 until you see the Advanced Boot Options open.

Select Safe Mode with Networking.

Windows 8/10

In your Windows login screen, press the Power button. Press and hold Shift and click Restart.

Troubleshoot → Advanced options → Startup Settings → Restart.

When the choices appear, go down to Enable Safe Mode with Networking.

Step 1.2 Remove RansSIRIA Ransomware

Once you are able to log into your account, launch a browser and download anti-malware software. Make sure you obtain a trustworthy program. Scan your computer and when it locates the threat, delete it.

If you are unable to get rid of the threat this way, try the below methods.

Recover files via Windows Previous Versions

If System Restore was enabled on your computer prior to infection, you may be able to recover data through Windows Previous Versions.

Right-click on a file you want to recover.

Properties → Previous versions.

In Folder versions, select the version of the file you want and press Restore.

Using Shadow Explorer to recover files

More advanced ransomware deletes the shadow copies of your files that the computer makes automatically, but not all ransomware does it. You might get lucky and be able to recover files via Shadow Explorer.

Obtain Shadow Explorer, preferably from the official website.

Install the program and launch it.

Select the disk with your files from the menu and check which files appear there.

If you see something you want to restore, right-click on it and select Export.

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